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The Latest Gem From McCain’s Long History Of Horrifying ‘Wisecracks’

John McCain’s always had a hearty arsenal of “cocktail party jokes,” including several about killing Iranian civilians with either bombs or exported American cancer, and another about Chelsea Clinton being ugly because her father is Janet Reno’s penis. These jokes, however, can’t shake a stick at the latest gem someone has unearthed from a 1986 copy of the Tucson Citizen, one that got him in a tit-bit of trouble at the time. After the jump: McCain’s crack about the gorilla who rapes and murders some gal in the street.

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’

Jim Newell is Wonkette's beloved Capitol Hill Typing Demon. He joined Wonkette.com in 2007, left for some other dumb job in 2010, and proudly returned in 2012 as our "Senior Editor at Large." He lives in Washington and also writes for things such as The Guardian, the Manchester paper of liberals.

[re=36864]Truculent[/re]: Actually McCain might be old enough that he still uses the edition of the codebook where “Ape” = “The Kaiser and/or his Hun Army”.

El Bombastico

Say what you will, but his “Seizure World” crack still gets a chuckle from me. Especially now that he’s a hair’s-breadth away from a massive coronary!

Lolo

You ruined the punch line. She wasn’t a slut. She was a cunt! Now do you get it?

KevoTron

Hee hee hee! Ho ho ho! Ha ha ha!

Silly Walnuts!- jokes about rape are for KIDS!

or is that Trix cereal?

Makeithurt

No no — the ape was white. He was marvelous. The girl was a negress. I mean, she was a slut/cunt after all, huh?

Indi

Where’s the New Yorker when you REALLY need it?

loquaciousmusic

“Rape, rape, rape, rape, rape a woman!”

I don’t know. It just doesn’t have the same punch.

Spence

Once you go Pongidae, you never go back.

Larry Fine

John “Shecky” McCain, has a joke for any occasion.

Happy Fun Ball

Ha! That old saw! Man, a good rape joke gets a crowd going E-V-E-R-Y time!

Scarab

McCain responded that, he can’t remember ever making a joke like that. Seriously he can’t remember, did people laugh?

RuperttheBear

I think the girl is supposed to have Down’s syndrome, because then it’s funny.

loquaciousmusic

[re=36879]Spence[/re]: FTW!

Vewol Mevemont

Clintons4McCain!

Political Addict

I’m sure there will be more discoveries. That joke, and variations of the joke, were pretty widespread at one time, though, so I’m not sure that much offense will be taken. (Not that that excuses anything.) One variation has the woman crying some time later and when asked what was wrong she replies: “He hasn’t called, he hasn’t written.” Imagine — people were still writing letters then.

You just know John has a whole slew of buttsecks jokes involving some guy dropping the soap in prison, or dropping his wallet on Castro and kicking it all the way over to Noe before picking it up, or about the black contestant on Dating Game who, when asked where the most unusual place he’d ever had sex was, said, “umm, in da butt?” He probably winks first and checks to make sure the caddies aren’t around before he tells a joke at the country club.

anabellum

im reminded of another joke…something i learned a long time ago…

ya see, if you use your open palm and thrust it upwards into the nose of a retarded old fat-ass politician…then lots of blood and pain follow…in fact, if you do it hard enough, you can push whats left of his nose up into the brain itself…

its hilarious…

Truculent

[re=36867]bhosp[/re]: I checked. “Kraut” or “Heinie” is preferred for Germans. The book says you have to stick your front teeth out and convert L’s to R’s if your doing an Asian joke. Jews are always cheap and say “Oy” a lot. Let’s see.. the ape analogy runs clear back to the British Empire version, although they called blacks “wogs.” Pretty sure our hero was talking about a black man. Besides, don’t all white women want to be raped by black men? Says so right here on page 263 of the codebook.

beanish

[re=36864]Truculent[/re]: I thought the N-word is code for Negro in old white man jokes.

The need to be “sensitive” or “PC” was pretty new back in ’86. Either McCain was pretty progressive for an old white man, blazing the trail on the codes to be used by future generations of racists… or he just meant an ape. I’ll go with the latter.

bhosp

[re=36896]Truculent[/re]: I must have the expurgated version.

tonashideska

That was no slut, it was Cindy

Neilist

[re=36892]weirdiowasculpture[/re]: Actually, I can see Walnuts in a remake of a certain movie, playing a certain judge:

Tony D’Annunzio: Another Rob Roy, Bishop?
Bishop: You never ask a navy man if he’ll have another drink, because it’s nobody’s goddamned business how much he’s had already.
Judge Smails: Wrong, you’re drinking too much your Excellency.
Bishop: Excellency, fiddlesticks, my name’s Fred and I’m a man, same as you.
Judge Smails: You’re not a man, you’re a bishop, for God’s sakes.
Bishop: There is no God…

Neilist

Oh, and:

Judge Smails: Oh Porterhouse, look at the wax build up on these shoes I want that wax stripped off there, then I want them creamed and buffed with a fine chamois, and I want them now. Chop chop.

Smoke Porterhouse: Yes judge, right away judge.

FunkyPalmettoBug

I’m offended as a comedian. That joke isn’t funny.

FunkyPalmettoBug

[re=36902]Neilist[/re]: It’s easy to grin / When your votes come in / And you’ve got the Mitt Romney beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his hilltards are too tight in the seat.

SayItWithWookies

I heard that joke before, only it was about an American POW and a North Vietnamese jailer. Oh, was that not funny? ‘Cause I laughed until my arms were pulled out of their sockets.

methuselas baby

Wonkettian:
Cindy loved it when I did it to her, John. She said she was tired of Viagra love, and needed a real man. Don’t worry, I won’t tell about when you were “the woman.” I keep that in confidence, Johnny. We all know a man has anal curiosity, so, no harm no foul, right?

Non Wonkettian words:
I have been trashing this douchebag at such great sites as Drudge and Wingnuts-R-Us. Proxy server helps, because accounts get deleted regularly. It’s good to line up accounts for things like this.

jagorev

I laughed. Not out loud, but it did get a snicker, at least. Was that wrong? Do I have to take estrogen pills now?

NotMyRealName

Rape is never funny. Unless you’re raping a clown. /some t-shirt I saw

shortsshortsshorts

Anybody have any jokes about euthenizing old people?

ManchuCandidate

Wait till his next comedy set.

“What’s the deal with Iran? Aren’t they crazy or what?”

shortsshortsshorts

[re=36922]NotMyRealName[/re]: You have to rape a clown in one of those tiny cars though, now that would be hilarious.

I hate clowns. HATE.

Fata Morgana

Did you hear the one about the old man who runs for president, is beaten soundly and in a humilating fashion by a man half his age, and then is left with nothing more than a few years of golf, some stinking upscale old folks home, and death to look forward to?

i’m just less tolerant of sexism after the horror of Obama picking on Hillary.

Odd Ass City

And somebody said, “What a tard” and he heard, “What a card.” Leading him to tell another, no doubt.

John McClain

Gorillas have 1 inch dicks, so I’m guessing this slut was no “size queen,” just appreciated the ferocity and getting gnawed at like a rubber tire. Women! Can’t live with ’em, can’t nominate ’em to run for President.

Anita Cocktail

Hey, I thought “heinie” meant ass.
I must have the wrong codebook.

WIDTAP

Makes those “I’m a Hillary supporter and I am voting for MxCain” T-shirts all the more ironic, doesn’t it.

masterdebater

But for gods sake, don’t say he is out of touch…that would just be insensitive.

Monsieur Grumpe

3 guys walk into a bar. One is a Jew, one is black and the other is John McCain. The bartender comes over and asks “What can I get for you fine gents today?” the Jew says “I’ll have a beer.” the black guy says “I’ll have a bourbon, straight up.” John McCain yells at the top of his lungs “Have you ever called your wife a cunt?” Everybody in the bar is thoroughly disgusted by the old fart and walk out the bar leaving him to sit all alone.

gjdodger

“Beaten senseless…raped repeatedly…left to die”? Oh, so THAT’s what happened to McCain’s first wife! I never did believe that car accident malarkey.

PoliticalGraffiti

that same joke works even better when the female is McCain and the vag is…well, McCains ass

[re=36904]FunkyPalmettoBug[/re]: I’m actually trying to figure out if there COULD possibly be anything funny about that, some sort of in-joke that we’re not getting. But nothing. It sounds like something that could be used to make fun of Ayn Rand fans, though.

AxmxZ

Somewhere, Barry is doing a mental happy dance. (Mental because a physical one would be undignified.)

Someone really should post that story to the PUMA, Hillaryis41 and all…

FunkyPalmettoBug

[re=36990]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Its a poorly constructed joke, even putting aside the subject matter. There’s no way you could change the who/whats of the joke to something less offensive and it would be funny.

FunkyPalmettoBug

[re=36979]itgetter[/re]: The spin will be that it was Obama in white face.

Darehead

her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’
Grammatically, this could also mean that the woman sighed but the doctor did the feeble asking.
Ergo:

The doctor was feeble; therefore, he was homosexual. He wants the ape to do it to HIM.

Come to think of it, Walnuts is kinda feeble too.

WonkaBee

Wai, I’ve got it……

Did you hear the one about Ayn Rand being attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly ….

itgetter

[re=36998]AxmxZ[/re]: Somebody should have told him that before he went on Ellen.

WonkaBee

Pongo Shrugged

or: Dabney Taggart gets her Reardon

FunkyPalmettoBug

[re=37011]WonkaBee[/re]: Worst. Cato Institute Comic Book. Evah.

BexNYC

As a victim of rape this actually made me physically sick and I have a very thick skin.
~becca

WOW! What is wrong with Grampy McBush? Have his meds been updated?

shortsshortsshorts

As an American, I have a Paulstitutional right to rape a Gorilla.

AxmxZ

[re=37013]itgetter[/re]: He did good on Ellen. Swept off the table the last of those pernicious rumors of his negritude.

Mr Blifil

I gotta good one. Guy walks into a harem with a chainsaw and performs mass cliteridectomy…ah, you’ve probably already heard it…

Quacker

There is a minimalist version of this joke:

Girl: “Rape! Rape! I’m being helped”

The end.

OhFuckThis

OH please, like none of you hippies have woken up after an evening of drinking, orifice comfortably stretched, wondering, “Where is that marvelous ape?”

OhFuckThis

3 guys walk into a bar. One is a Jew, one is black and the other is John McCain. The bartender comes over and asks “What can I get for you fine gents today?” the Jew says “I’ll have a beer.” the black guy says “I’ll have a bourbon, straight up.” John McCain yells at the top of his lungs “Have you ever called your wife a cunt?” Everybody in the bar is thoroughly disgusted by the old fart and walk out the bar leaving him to sit all alone.

Not good. 3 guys walk into a bar/ One is Joe Lieberman, one is John McCain, one is a negro in a terrorist suit.
Bartender says, “What’ll it be?”
Joe says, “Manischewitz on kosher ice”.
Bartender beats him to death for being stupid.
McCain says, “Ethanol, straight up.”
Bartender beats him to death for being stupid.
Negro says, “Got anything in an arugula?”
Bartender sighs and votes him president.

gurukalehuru

Has Jill Isicol seen this? Kristin Breitweiser? Erica Jong? I’d be interested in their reaction.

Stones

Wow! Torie Clarke’s first job before her gig with Andrew Dice Clay!
The future looks bright.

Lazy Media

I’m sure McCain would agree, when ape rape is inevitable, you might as well relax and enjoy it.

itgetter

[re=37065]Mr Blifil[/re]: [re=37104]Stones[/re]: Made of win. But you know if The New Yorker published either of your comments the libruls would have ananeurysm.

If you see that marvelous ape, say hello, he might be in Tangier
He left here last early spring, is livin’ there, I hear
Say for me that I’m all right though things get kind of slow
He might think that I’ve forgotten him, don’t tell him it isn’t so.

Borat

this is obviously true and not some intertubes rumor. i know its true beacause its in the newspapers and those are reliable souces of good information. newspapers are also offer a far more advanced technology that their precursors the town crier and stone tablets

kellygrrrl

well, she must be a good little ReThuglican – she did take their advice – “if it’s inevitable, just sit back and enjoy it.”
too bad her insurance wouldn’t cover birth control – Evangelical Ape Babies can be unruly

BadNewsJack

He should join def comedy jam or at least perform at the Apollo theater.

See, if “Juan Pablo McCain”, as Tom Cunningham calls him, used George Carlin’s routine for a rape joke, (eg, Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd) this would have only gotten a 1/4 column under the ad for Depends.

villageatrois

McCain blew the joke. The victim would not eat, or talk for days, staring blankly out the window. Did not respond to nurses. At length, hospital staff summoned her life-long best friend, who spoon fed soup to the disconsolate lady. The friend told her, “you don’t have to talk if you don’t want, but I’m here”. Much later, the rape victim sighed audibly, and looked at her friend, and said, “he doesn’t write, he doesn’t call….”

The Lucky Republican

[re=36880]Larry Fine[/re]: Correction. He has a rape joke for any occasion.